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A new book, published by Taschen, documents some of the most memorable ads from the 2000s.

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What the best ads of the 2000s reveal about American culture

Before digital marketing became the norm, there was arguably more room for complex, creative and daring image-making.

The Latest in Design

Portrait of German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969), a cigar in his hand, as he looks at a model of his design for the Toronto-Dominion Centre, Chicago, Illinois, 1968. (Photo by Hans Namuth/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images)

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This famous architect’s iconic furniture line is getting its first update in decades

This undated image provided by Studio Kukkapuro shows Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish furniture designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms and museums alike, sitting in his famous Experimental chair in his studio outside Helsinki.

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Yrjö Kukkapuro, designer whose iconic chairs were sat on by ‘almost every Finn,’ dies age 91

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 29: Martha Stewart attends the 2024 WWD Honors at Cipriani South Street on October 29, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by John Nacion/WireImage)

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Now you can have Martha Stewart in your garden

Phil Cicio, an electrician at Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, checks the lights on the ball that will drop in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, at the company's warehouse in New York, Dec. 26, 1991. The ball weighs 200 pounds, is six feet in diameter and contains 180 white outdoor lamps. The tradition dates back to 1907 when the first ball was lowered from the top of One Times Square, then the New York Times building.

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A brief history of the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop

London, England, UK, 30 September 2024 - Looks Delicious! exhbition at Japan House London

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This food looks too good to be real — and it is

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Pantone names its color of the year for 2025

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Jaguar reveals first concept car after controversial rebrand

Cien Años de Soledad S1. Claudio Cataño as Aureliano in Cien Años de Soledad.

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‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: How Netflix brought the imaginary town of Macondo to life

Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, October 25, 2024. REUTERS/Irene Wang

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World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space

A display of "Hello Kitty" items are seen at a press preview of the "CUTE" exhibition at Somerset House in London, England, on January 24, 2024.

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Hello Kitty at 50: The mouthless face that launched an $80 billion empire

Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has unveiled a miniature Rubik’s Cube.

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This is the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube. And it actually works

Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, stands beside China's moon-landing spacesuit during the opening ceremony of the 3rd Space Suit Technology Forum on September 28, 2024 in Chongqing, China.

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China’s astronauts are aiming to land on the moon by 2030. They now have a new spacesuit to do it

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Video It’s April Fools’ Day. Here’s a history of one of the world’s most iconic pranks 2:38

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Video See 2025’s color of the year 1:07

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Video Watch the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube being solved 1:04

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Video See how a secret ink formula prevents voter fraud in Indian elections 1:33

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Video The history of colors in British politics 3:06

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 31: A view of the ball dropping during New Year's Eve 2017 in Times Square at Times Square on December 31, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

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Video The Times Square ball drop has been a New York tradition for over 100 years 1:23

399078 02: Workers install the final light bulbs onto the exterior of the Times Square New Years Ball December 28, 2001 in New York City. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Times Square security would equal or exceed measures taken for the millennium. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Video The Times Square ball drop has been a New York tradition for over 100 years 1:40

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Video See 2024’s color of the year 1:06

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Republicans are red and Democrats blue. But it wasn’t always that way

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Meet the artist transforming tennis balls into furniture

VW Beetle Mexico

The VW Beetle evokes memories of years gone by, but in Mexico it’s still part of the present

+POOL Rendering at Pier 35. Designed by Family New York & Playlab, Inc. Image by Luxigon, 2021.

+ POOL rendering at Pier 35. Designed by Family New York & Playlab, Inc. Image by Luxigon

New York City is one step closer to getting its long-awaited floating East River pool

How this ‘off-putting’ color shaded the internet and beyond

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Marathon-winning ‘spray-on’ running shoes could shake up Olympics

The Phryge, Paris 2024 Paralympics mascot, poses during a presentation to the press of the Paris 2024 podium on the Trocadero Parvis des Droits de l'Homme (Human Rights square) in front of the Eiffel Tower on May 23, 2024 in Paris. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fun or frightening? A brief history of Olympic mascot design

How Britain’s political parties got their colors

The “BioHome3D,” a 3D-printed 600-square-foot single-family house

University of Maine, Advanced Structures and Composites Center

‘When can I have one?’: The world’s largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood

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‘Bound to secrecy’: The indelible ink behind the world’s biggest election

A rare Roman dodecahedron was found in Lincolnshire, England last summer and is set to go on display in the Lincoln Museum in Lincoln, England.

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‘Great enigma’: Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object

Kim Kardashian at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

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Why Kim Kardashian is being sued for ‘knockoff’ furniture